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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?
(a) His uniform is not a Red Cross uniform.
(b) The man told him he is not from the Red Cross.
(c) The Red Cross no longer exists.
(d) He does not have a Red Cross I.D.

2. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?
(a) He waves to the man.
(b) He tells his aide to arrest him.
(c) He yells the same phrase back at the man.
(d) He ignores the man and says nothing.

3. How long has the Marlboro Man been in prison before he is able to escape?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 5 years.

4. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?
(a) That the Minister does not recognize the man.
(b) That the Minister relies on Ari to help him.
(c) That the Minister is running away.
(d) That the Minister was not prepared for the storm.

5. What author does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister reading in their youth?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Salinger.
(c) Vonnegut.
(d) Fitzgerald.

6. How long ago does the Marlboro Man say he was given that nickname?
(a) 40 years ago.
(b) 20 years ago.
(c) 3 years ago.
(d) 10 years ago.

7. What does Ari repeat over and over as he drives the man and the Minister?
(a) Please get out of the car.
(b) Please don't kill us.
(c) Please don't kill him.
(d) Please don't kill me.

8. How are Ari and the man described as the Minister thinks of being stuck in the car with them "on the way to his own execution" (7)?
(a) A lunatic and a coward.
(b) A pragmatist and a rebel.
(c) An intellect and a thug.
(d) A devotee and a sinner.

9. What does the Marlboro Man say he helped build?
(a) The municipal building.
(b) The Minister's house.
(c) The church.
(d) The airport.

10. Why was the Marlboro Man given that nickname?
(a) He was from a town called Marlboro.
(b) He used to sell Marlboros from his trunk.
(c) His aunt used to send him Marlboro Reds from America.
(d) He used to steal Marlboros from convenient stores.

11. What does the Minister tell the Marlboro Man will happen to him once they reach the airport?
(a) He will be taken to Paris.
(b) He will be arrested.
(c) He will be executed.
(d) Ari will bring him back to the church.

12. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?
(a) The reservoir.
(b) The old mill.
(c) Downtown.
(d) The forest.

13. What does the Minister realize as a group of aids guide him down the tarmac?
(a) He set the Marlboro Man free.
(b) He forgot his suitcase.
(c) He does not want to see his wife.
(d) He did not say goodbye to Ari.

14. What word does the Marlboro Man use to describe the Prime Minister?
(a) Snob.
(b) Toughguy.
(c) Sissy.
(d) Dimwit.

15. Who does the man say gave him the nickname The Marlboro Man?
(a) The Prime Minister.
(b) The Minister's wife.
(c) Elena.
(d) The Minister of Interior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?

2. What does Ari do as he drives the Minister and the man who got into the car with them?

3. What does the Minister say to the man after he has pulled him into the car with Ari?

4. What does the Marlboro Man do when they approach a checkpoint near the airport?

5. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?

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